laurapk 's review for:

Vous revoir by Marc Levy

3.0

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Although a good read, the second half dampened my enthusiasm significantly. I will give it to the author: he kept me glued to the pages and I missed an entire productive weekend trying (and failing) to keep myself away from this book. Unfortunately it did loose a lot of steam and the second half felt short of the start. The first half did a great job stirring my feelings, I could feel Arthur's pain so vividly in my chest it made me sick. But then the humor dampened, the story entered a parallel arc that was too similar to the first novel and the soap-opera moments started bothering me. Although it still made me giggle a few more times, the laughter fits of the first book never returned. I appreciate the emotional writing and think it's the high of the book. I think the biggest fault was that the author opted for a too fragmented story, there was too much jumping around, and too many stupid things preventing Arthur and Lauren from getting together. And then too short of a reunion.
And I would have fired that doctor that nearly killed him, that wasn't even funny.